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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We now have the final numbers reported by all four of the 'Big Four' analyst houses: IDC, Canalys, Strategy Analytics and Gartner. As always, I use the average of these four houses as the total market size, and then force a 'best fit' analysis.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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We are getting more results coming in from the smartphone bloodbath, while the new and old players are shuffling cards... Jolla gets an OEM manufacturer, Firefox OS gets a major Far Eastern backer and many more.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Vivante Corporation could be one of the best known secrets in Silicon Valley. The company creates graphics processors which get integrated in numerous SoC's, yet the public perception is close to zero.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Last week, we were surprised to see Huawei's K3V2 quad-core powered superphone walking all over the competition. Today, a dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 did just that in Basemark ES 2.0 Taji benchmark.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
NEWS
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Huawei made a big splash at the MWC 2012 in Barcelona. The "Ascend D quad XL" is powered by an in-house quad-core ARM chip. Today, we have received first preliminary scores.
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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While Microsoft delayed Windows-On-ARM until late second quarter 2013, with the possibility of slipping into third quarter of 2013, product designers got a firmed list of silicon vendors.
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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Californians think they have the corner on Silicon Valley, but similar congregations exist in France, Germany, India, and Canada. Even Russia is getting into the act.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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In this article, you'll find a preliminary projection for full year 2011 in terms of Smartphone market shares, and the separate market projections for the third and fourth quarter of 2011.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Let's do some Bloodbath news. How is the smartphone market doing mid-way in this Year 2 of Smartphones Bloodbath? The weather report for the summer is sunny for some, shady for others and stormy for some.
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We finally have the numbers for all four major analyst houses. As always, we calculated the average of their totals to find the quarterly total smartphone sales - which came to 101.2 million, a 2% QoQ growth.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
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SECURITY, BUSINESS
NEWS
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In a bid to strengthen the position of the WebM format in what can only be described as the "web video wars", Google and other WebM proponents formed a Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Where Apple was perfection in its 1Q results, Nokia is the total opposite. Nokia results were aweful in almost every way; while the industry grew from 4Q'10 to 1Q'11, Nokia saw declining ASPs, lost revenues, declined profits.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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There is no other way of putting it, Nokia invented the smartphone. It also reinvented the smartphone, destroying competitors in the process. But then, Nokia made a crucial mistake.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Not wanting to be left out of an emerging market, the Chinese hosted what they tout as the first femtocell event in China.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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No sex, some lies and a lot of marketing mumbo-jumbo - when will these telecom providers learn?
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